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Motivate Venture Capital

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Motivate Venture Capital is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in Pre-seed and Seed-stage companies across the US and Canada.

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Motivate Ventures, Motivate.vc

founded date

01.05.2019

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Private

Description

The firm focuses on investing in startups operating in the fintech, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and B2B software industries. They invest in incredible founders with strong domain knowledge building new companies with very high growth potential in large and growing markets. Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups, with a target first check size of $500k-$2mm and a target of 15%+ ownership and 10x+ returns on each of their investments. Entrepreneurs can reach out and tell them more about their startup and its funding needs on their website.
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Lauren DeLuca
Lauren DeLuca

Lauren DeLuca

Lauren DeLuca is a Founder and General Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Pre-Seed and Seed investor. He co-founded a family of niche FinTech firms and was an active Angel investor. In 2012, he co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged with Victory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017. He co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. His personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over thirty early- and growth-stage businesses, including Chime, HomeChef, TradingView, Appcast, Popular Pays, DeskPass and PostProcess Technologies. He received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Cum Laude in 2001.

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David Wieland
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David Wieland

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Associate

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Managing Partner

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David Wieland

Managing Partner

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Olivia Chen

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